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as young ones never enter a fair. Nothing can 

 more prove the anxiety of dealers to purchase, than 

 the early visits they pay to the stables engaged for 

 horses on sale, for the tyro must not imagine that 

 horses x>f the first class stand strung to ropes in the 

 common fairs. That horses of considerable value 

 and pretensions are thus exhibited, we know; but 

 not such horses as Messrs. Anderson, Elmore, and 

 other first-rate dealers search for as their elite. 

 Horses that, in technical term, '' stand the fair," are 

 chiefly purchased as harness horses and hacks; butstill 

 such are of no ordinary class : the costermonger 

 does not go to Howden — at least, not to purchase or 

 sell horses. 



There are fairs for all classes of horses as for all 

 classes of visitants; they may be described as the 

 London scamp facetiously designated his universal- 

 knowledge-of-London men, namely, "From the 

 roses, pinks, and tulips of one end, to the bunches 

 of turnups, strings of ingens, tag, rag, and bobtail of 

 the other." At the great fairs, our great dealers 

 show considerable courtesy to each other : if one 



